Valentin oak leaves

Valtentin oak leaves

Valentin Eichenlaub (born August 26, 1882 in Herxheim ; † April 18, 1958 ) was a German trade unionist , administrative officer and politician ( center ).

Life

After graduating from elementary school in 1895 and attending advanced training, Eichenlaub worked as a cigar maker from 1898 to 1906. From 1902 to 1904 he did military service. He got involved in the Christian trade union and later worked as secretary and district manager for the Central Association of Christian Tobacco and Cigar Workers in Heidelberg .

Eichenlaub, who had joined the Center Party, worked as party secretary in Konstanz after the First World War . From 1920 he worked as a councilor in the Baden Ministry of Labor and, after its dissolution, moved to the Ministry of the Interior in October 1924, where he was appointed senior councilor. In October 1925 he was elected as a member of the state parliament of the Republic of Baden , to which he belonged until 1933.

After the National Socialists came to power , Eichenlaub was dismissed on May 2, 1933 on the basis of Section 2 of the Law to Restore the Professional Civil Service , but was hired again shortly afterwards due to the influence of his party friends Ernst Föhr and Albert Hackelsberger . In the period that followed, the Gestapo monitored him . Eichenlaub refused to join the NSDAP and from 1934 cultivated contacts with the resistance in southwest Germany. On August 28, 1944, he was arrested as part of the " Operation Grid ", but released in October after signing a political declaration of commitment.

After the Second World War , Eichenlaub was Deputy Head of the Labor Department of the Baden Regional District as a government director. In 1950 he retired.

literature

• Rudolf Lill (Ed.): July 20, 1944: in Baden and Württemberg. Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 1994, pp. 167–169.

Web links

• Speeches by Valentin Eichenlaub in the Baden State Parliament in the digital collections of the Baden State Library